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North Carolina Democrat, attorney general (2001–2017) and governor (2017–2025). He vetoed abortion restrictions and local-ICE-cooperation bills, expanded Medicaid and opposes Trump’s tariffs. Elected U.S. senator in 2026, defeating Michael Whatley.
Political axes
Roy Cooper leans further toward progressive than 73% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Roy Cooper stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Roy Cooper sits practically at the catalog median.
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Liberalism that defends democracy, individual rights and a market economy, but tests each policy against evidence: it accepts regulation, a safety net and targeted intervention when they fix market failures, as in Clinton's Third Way.
Centrist branch that accepts the market economy but prioritizes social protection, public services, gradual reforms, and institutional consensus to reduce inequality without political rupture or permanent polarization.
Liberal current that accepts an active role for the state in the economy and in guaranteeing rights, combining individual freedoms and markets with regulation and public policies aimed at the collective good and equality.
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Juche SocialismRadical Left34%
German Social Democrat, exiled under the Nazis and mayor of West Berlin. As chancellor he launched Ostpolitik, with treaties with Moscow and Warsaw, and knelt at the Warsaw Ghetto. Nobel Peace Prize in 1971; resigned after the Guillaume affair.
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A Midwestern state dominated by Chicago, Illinois combines a Democratic political machine with a history of corruption, strong public-sector unions, a huge pension debt, strict gun laws, liberalized social policy and a conservative agricultural interior.
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Post-apartheid transition under Nelson Mandela: first multiracial elections, a government of national unity, the 1996 Constitution, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and moderately liberal economic policy.
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